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Sensitivity analysis of a flood inundation model to spatially-distributed friction

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Publication date2003
Host publicationGeoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International (Volume:3 )
Place of PublicationToulouse
PublisherIEEE
Pages1579-1581
Number of pages3
ISBN (print)0780379292
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

In this paper, land cover was predicted from Landsat TM imagery and used to generate spatially-distributed friction coefficients. Flood inundation was then predicted using the raster-based model LISFLOOD-FP, based on friction and three different elevation models. Sensitivity of LISFLOOD-FP to spatially-distributed friction was assessed. It was found that effect of friction on the flood wave is small when compared to the underlying elevation, but it greatest during the recession phase of the hydrograph.